Battle for Haditha
Image Entertainment | Release Date: May 7, 2008 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
65
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Generally favorable reviews based on 12 Critic Reviews
Positive:
8
Mixed:
3
Negative:
1
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman
Searing, powerful, and morally entangled. Read full review
80
New York Magazine (Vulture)David Edelstein
Battle for Haditha has some of the raw energy of Sam Fuller's war pictures, which weren't subtle but left you energized by their ambivalence (there was no good or evil). It's a hell of a picture. Read full review
80
The Hollywood ReporterMichael Rechtshaffen
With its dialogue largely improvised by many who had seen extensive combat in Iraq, Battle for Haditha has a gripping authenticity lacking in other similarly themed dramas. Read full review
80
VarietyRobert Koehler
Intense, fair-minded entry in the pileup of Iraq pictures. Read full review
75
The A.V. ClubNathan Rabin
Unsubtle but gripping. Read full review
70
Village VoiceAnthony Kaufman
An engaging Iraqudrama that straddles the line between blistering exposé and Spielbergian heart-tugger. Read full review
70
SalonAndrew O'Hehir
Largely improvised, cast with ex-Marines and Iraqi refugees and shot in Jordan. It might just be the movie this war has been waiting for. Read full review
63
Philadelphia InquirerSteven Rea
Lacking in subtlety and nuance, Broomfield's nerve-jangling movie nonetheless succeeds in showing the war from various vantage points. And from wherever one's standing, the view is profoundly disturbing. Read full review
60
The New York TimesManohla Dargis
Mr. Broomfield maintains a level of cool detachment throughout. That's to the good of the movie, which, though technically exemplary, falters dramatically on occasion, becoming dangerously close to overheated whenever the characters speak for any length. Read full review
50
Chicago ReaderJ.R. Jones
Broomfield, whose celebrity exposés are known for their intrusiveness and innuendo, lost me with his gentle shower scene between an Iraqi woman and her husband; even if it wasn't invented, is it really any of our business? Read full review
50
TV Guide MagazineKen Fox
Broomfield's film is didactic, awkwardly acted by the cast of former Marines who are meant to lend the film credibility, and clumsily inflammatory. Read full review
25
New York PostKyle Smith
The film is an exposé only of a filmmaker's senseless contempt for the military. Read full review
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